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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes

Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes

Researchers have isolated compounds from a native plant that may lead to a natural insect repellent product

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 4th, 2006
Noninfectious Bionic Limbs Directly Attached to Human Bones

Noninfectious Bionic Limbs Directly Attached to Human Bones

Trials conducted at Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex by British medical experts showed that it is very likely for the amputees to have non-soring titanium artificial limbs attached in the near future

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Food-Crop Yields in Future Greenhouse-Gas Conditions Lower than Expected

Food-Crop Yields in Future Greenhouse-Gas Conditions Lower than Expected

Scientists warn that global food supplies could be at risk without changes in production strategies.

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Biotechnology is Among the Key Forces Reshaping World Agriculture

Biotechnology is Among the Key Forces Reshaping World Agriculture

A recently released report identifies biotechnology as one of the leading forces shaping world agriculture

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent

Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent

According to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Controlling the Vortex

Controlling the Vortex

A novel way to create switches.

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response to Light

New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response to Light

Understanding how light affects 24-hour rhythms will likely open doors to future treatments of jetlag

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 4th, 2006
Sued for Unconsciously Passing on HIV

Sued for Unconsciously Passing on HIV

The California Supreme Court decided yesterday that a person who has been infected with HIV can sue the partner that infected him/her, even if the latter has not done it consciously

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  • By Alexandra Lupu
  • July 4th, 2006
Brain Recovery After 20 Years of Being Barely Conscious

Brain Recovery After 20 Years of Being Barely Conscious

Nerve cells in a patient's seriously damaged brain have developed new connections, allowing him to move and speak again after being in a coma for almost 20 years

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Was there life on Mars?

Was there life on Mars?

Devising the "shopping list" for future Mars missions

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Solar Power Breakthrough - Flexible Panels

Solar Power Breakthrough - Flexible Panels

"Artificial photosynthesis"

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
A Robot in Every Korean Home

A Robot in Every Korean Home

By 2020, according to Government's plans

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Sounds Don't Travel Well on Mars

Sounds Don't Travel Well on Mars

Because of low pressure

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Pest Control Without the Use of Toxic Agents

Pest Control Without the Use of Toxic Agents

Eco-friendly bug sucker

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Survey of Animal Shelters Says Dogs Fare Better than Cats

Survey of Animal Shelters Says Dogs Fare Better than Cats

"There are so many cats that it's very difficult to manage the quantity"

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
Biologists Solve Plant Growth Hormone Enigma

Biologists Solve Plant Growth Hormone Enigma

How auxin controls the "architecture" of the plant

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 3rd, 2006
"Emotional Contagion" Among Mice

"Emotional Contagion" Among Mice

New Pain Research Shows Mice Capable Of Empathy